Over 80% of those DiEM25 members from across Europe who voted to update their stance on Brexit this month chose the call by Yanis Varoufakis for the UK and EU to agree an extension of Article 50 for at least one year.
DiEM25 will contest the European elections in Italy, with a European programme offering a coherent alternative to the
implicit but destructive alliance between the oligarchic establishment and
Salvini’s nationalism.
“I wanted a Germany that was hegemonic and
efficient, not authoritarian and caught up in a European Ponzi scheme. That was
in 2013.” Excerpt from the Munich Seminar.
“The reason
we formed DiEM25 was the diagnosis that old wine in new
bottles will not help revive the spirits of progressives in Italy or in the
rest of Europe.” Interview.
We call upon all citizens of good conscience
to ask the Ecuadorian authorities to restore Assange’s access to the outside world,
and demand that the British authorities end his detention.
This month the
former finance minister of Greece is launching a new ‘patriotic front’ in
Greece, a broad, progressive, alliance of left, green and liberal Greeks, calling for realistic disobedience.